In February I attained my Ph.D completion letter from the Universities of Melbourne and Edinburgh for my thesis titled ‘Biochemical and Biophysical Investigations Into Key Malaria Parasite Proteins’. I have since decided to turn parts ...

We have a guest post from University of Melbourne M.Sc student, Ashleigh Henderson! The discovery and production of penicillin as an antibiotic in the early 1900’s was one of the most significant breakthroughs in the ...

Recently the University of Queensland ran the annual Molecular Design Contest, where students use pymol or related software to create a stunning image of a macromolecule of their choice. This is a contest I helped ...

Parasites, in all their forms, artfully exploit their unwitting host. Theileria is similar to Plasmodium but infects cattle and is spread by ticks rather than mosquitoes. Here, a white blood cell infected with Theileria (labelled ...

This is the atomic resolution top-down structure of the neuraminidase protein found on the surface of the Influenza virus (individual spheres represent individual atoms). Neuraminidase is the protein, along with haemagglutinin which allows for the ...

“This adorable picture was taken by the Norwegian photographer Dagfinn Breivik Skomsø (http://adnaturae.blogspot.no/) near Trondheim, Norway. These little birds are members of the species long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus), tiny birds (13-15 cm) found widespread around ...

This week’s stunning photo was shot by Norwegian photographer Rune Gudmundsen, and it is of a Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus canadensi nelsoni). The Rocky Mountain elk is a sub species of elk (Cervus canadensi), and ...

This week’s photo shows a brown bear (Ursus arctos) photographed in North-Eastern Finland during midnight june this year. At this time of the year, it never gets completly dark here. There are several subspecies of ...